What doesnt add up? If its mining speed then with modern asics its easily achievable.
Of course treat everything with suspicion!
However, I read the threads before investing on btctalk. I tend not to believe everything i read ESPECIALLY on here.
Its FUD central
Yeah, I most certainly agree Bitcointalk ain't no more what it used to be
Regarding what doesn't add up
in relation to the SHA256 hashes, well, for instance, the SHA256 hashes are provably fake; kindly read back some of my posts on this regarding;
In addition, there's also the halving: When the halving occurred, Hashflare reported to have placed "new and more energy efficient equipment"
spot on; not a day before, nor a day after, but
right the day it occurred (!,
red flag 1). And (!,
red flag 2), they also stated that day that they had been working/anticipating this "for months". If you have been with Hashflare before the halving, you probably know what I am referring to; if not, well, that's what came to pass;
Now (!,
red flag 3 (lengthy one)), Hashflare doesn't nor didn't produced any kind of ASIC's. So, that means that the
period Hashflare referred to ("for months"), effectively would mean that their "new and more energy efficient equipment" could only be (1) 'external' equipment, and (2) only be equipment more efficient than Alcheminers; when looking at the time period
after 'the Alcheminers', only 3 options were (worldwide) available: Bitmaintech (their S5's and/or S7's Antminers), BW (bw.com), and Spondoolies (their SP50). BW never produced any ASIC's either, yet instead they used and are using
the chips to generate the hashes. Since the chips's BW's were and are using never were or are available for the public, rules them out of being a 'candidate'. Spondoolies SP20's weren't available anymore and their SP50's turned out to be vaporware, so this rules/ruled them out to. So, those "new and more energy efficient equipment" could only be either Antminers S5's, S7's, or a combination of both; and here's why, regarding the SHA256, my
red flag number 3: Hashflare had been 'preparing' and 'installing' and 'anticipating' with them "new and more energy efficient equipment", "for months"; and they did
that, going in effective,
spot on (!), the day the actual halving occurred? I mean, whuuut
They supposedly had BETTER equipment which they had been
PREPARING and
INSTALLING them for for
MONTHS (<== !!!), and they switched THE WHOLE BUNCH 'on' only and
ONLY on the DAY THE HALVING
ACTUAL OCCURED
Sure, honesty requires that the whole latter could be an option; yet, like you said, "treat everything with suspicion", is why I stated why it simply (as for me, and in answer to your question AND only regarding the SHA256 hashes) doesn't add up